Truck driver injured in train derailment discharged from hospital

Baltimore County Public Safety photos of the scene near the 7500 block of Lake Drive where an Alban Waste truck was hit by a CSX train causing a derailment and explosion.

Baltimore County Public Safety photos of the scene near the 7500 block of Lake Drive where an Alban Waste truck was hit by a CSX train causing a derailment and explosion. (Handout courtesy Baltimore County Public Safety)

Baltimore County Public Safety photos of the scene near the 7500 block of Lake Drive where an Alban Waste truck was hit by a CSX train causing a derailment and explosion.

Baltimore County Public Safety photos of the scene near the 7500 block of Lake Drive where an Alban Waste truck was hit by a CSX train causing a derailment and explosion. (Handout photo courtesy Baltimore County Public Safety)

Baltimore County Public Safety photos of the scene near the 7500 block of Lake Drive where an Alban Waste truck was hit by a CSX train causing a derailment and explosion.

Baltimore County Public Safety photos of the scene near the 7500 block of Lake Drive where an Alban Waste truck was hit by a CSX train causing a derailment and explosion. (Handout photo courtesy Baltimore County Public Safety)

Baltimore County Public Safety photos of the scene near the 7500 block of Lake Drive where an Alban Waste truck was hit by a CSX train causing a derailment and explosion.

Baltimore County Public Safety photos of the scene near the 7500 block of Lake Drive where an Alban Waste truck was hit by a CSX train causing a derailment and explosion. (Handout photo courtesy Baltimore County Public Safety)

Baltimore County Public Safety photos of the scene near the 7500 block of Lake Drive where an Alban Waste truck was hit by a CSX train causing a derailment and explosion.

Baltimore County Public Safety photos of the scene near the 7500 block of Lake Drive where an Alban Waste truck was hit by a CSX train causing a derailment and explosion. (Handout courtesy Baltimore County Public Safety)

After Alban's truck struck the southbound 45-car freight train, 15 cars derailed and chemicals on board caught fire and exploded, shearing off the side of a nearby building and blowing out windows and cracking ceilings on other buildings.

No one else was seriously injured in the incident, at a grade crossing near the 7500 block of Lake Drive in an industrial section of Rosedale. The National Transportation Safety Board is investigating the crash.

Alban, a retired Baltimore County firefighter, owns a trucking business in an area surrounded by what used to be known as the 68th Street Dump, which is accessible only by crossing the train tracks.